pflsswraw rVfuri BS 10 "Good heavensl" the young man said "this is dreadful; they had a thousand times better have been shot with their friends. What's to be done, Sergeant?" "I don't, know," Eonald said, "I can't think yet. At any rate, instead of waiting till the men with the wagons come back, I will pnsh straight on out oi the wood, and will then send the rest of them back at full gallop to meet you, then you can all come on together. I think you said you would take command of the party going back with the wagons." The two trains were at once set in motion. Eonald's party met with no further inter ruption until they were clear of the bush. As soon as he was well away from it, he ' sent back the Eifles to join the other party, and return with them through the forest. He went on for half a mile further, then halted the wagons and dismounted. Mr. Armstrong had been placed in one of the wagons going up the country, as they were nearer to a town that way than to Port Elizabeth; besides Eonald knew that if Mr. Armstrong recovered consciousness, he would for many reasons prefer being up the country. Eonald walked up ,and down, restless and excited, meditating what step he had best take, for he was determined in come way or other he would attempt to rescue Mary Armstrong from the hands of the natives. Presently the head man of the Fingoes came up to him, and said, in a mixture of English and his own tongue: "My white friend is troubled, can Kreta help him?" "I am troubled, terribly troubled, Kreta. One of the white ladies who has been car ried off by the Kaffirs is a friend of mine. I must get her out of their hands." Kreta looked grave. "Difficult thing that,sir. irgo Into bush get chopped to pieces." "I must risk that," Eonald said; "I am going to try and save her whether it costs me my life or not" "Kreta will go with his white friend," the chief said; "white man no chance by himself." "Would you, Kreta?" Eonald asked eagerly; "but no, I have no right to take you into such danger as that. You have a wife and child; I have no one to depend upon me." "Kreta would not have a child if it had not been for his white friend," Kreta said; "if he goes, Kreta goes with him, and will take some of his men." "You are a good fellow, Kreta," Eonald said, shaking the chief heartily by the band; "now what's the best way of setting about it?" The Pingo thought for some time, add then asked: "Is the white woman young and pretty?" "Yes," Eonald replied, rather surprised at the question. "Then I think she is safe for a little while. If she is old and ugly they torture her and kill her quick; if she is pretty and young most likely they will send her as a present to their big chiel; perhaps Macomo or Sandilli, or Kreli, or one of the other great chiefs, whichever tribe they belong to. Can't do nothing to-day; might crawl into the wood; but if I find her how can I get her out? That's not possible. The best thing will be this: I will send two of my young men into the bush to try and find out what they do with her, and where they are going to take her. Then at night we will try to get them off as they go across the country. If we no meet them we go straight to Amatoias to hnd out tee Kraal to which they take her and then see how to get her off." "How many men will you take, Kreta?" "Five men," the chief said, holding up one hand, "that's enough to creep and crawl. No use to try force; too many Kaffirs. Five men might do; 500 no good." "I think you are right, Chief. It must be done by craft if at all." "Then I will sendoffmv two young men at once," the chief said. "They" go a long way round, and enter bush on the other fide; then creep through the bush and hear Kaffir talk. If Kaffir sees them they think they their own people, but mustn't talk; if they do Kaffirs notice difference of tongue. One, two words no noticed, but if talk much find out directly." "Then there's nothing for me to do to night," Eonald said. The chief shook his head. "No good till quite dark." "In that case I will go on with the con voys as far as Bushman's river, where they halt to-night " "Very well," the chief said. "We go on with you there, and then come bark here and meet the young men, who will tell us what they have found out." The chief went away, and Eonald saw him speaking to some of his men. Then two young fellows of about 20 years old laid aside their blankets, put them and their guns into one of the wagons, and then, after five minutes' conversation with their chief, who was evidently giving them minute in structions, went off at a slinging trot across the country. In less than an hour the party that was escorting the settlers' wagons through- the bush, and the mounted men who had gone to meet them, returned together.having seen no sign of the enemy. The wagons were set in motion, and the march continued. Eonald Mervyn rode up to the officer of the native levy. "I am going, sir, to make what may seem a most extraordinary request, and indeed it is one that is, I think, out of your power to grant, but it you give your approval it to some extent will lessen my responsibility." "What is it, Sergeant?" the young officer asked in some surprise. "I want when we arrive at the halting place to hand over the command of my de tachment to the Corporal, and for you to let me go away on my own affairs. I want you also to allew your head man, Kreta, and five of his men leave of absence." The young officer was astonished. "Oi course I am in command of the men, and so have authority over you so long as you are with me, but as vou received orders direct from your own officers to take your detach ment down to the coast, and return with the wagons, I am sure that I have no power to grant you leave to go away." "No, sir, that's just what I thought, but ai the same time if you report that although you were unable to grant me leave, you ap proved of my at.sence, it will make it mnch easier for me. Not that it makes any differ ence, sir. because I admit frankly that I should go in any case. It is probable that one may be reduced to the ranks, but I don't think that under the circumstances they will punish me any more severely than that." "But what' are the circumstances, Ser geant? I can scarcely imagine any circum stance that could make me approve of your intention to leave your command on a march like this." "I was just going to tell you them, sir, but I may say that I do not think it at all probable that there will be any further at tack on the convoy. There is ho more large bush to pass between this and Williamstown, and so far we have heard of no attempt being made further on the road to stop con voys. That poor fellow who is lying wounded in the wagon is a Mr. Armstrong. He was an officer in the service when he was a young man, and fought, he told me, at Waterloo. His place is near the spot where I was quartered tor two months just before the outbreak, and he showed me great kind ness, and treated me as a friend. Well, sir, one of the three ladies that were, as vou heard, carried off in the wagons, was Mr. Armstrong's danghter. Now, sir, you know What her fate will be in the hands of those savages: dishonor, torture and death. I am going to save her if I can. I don't know whether I shall succeed, most likely I shall not. My life is of no great consequence to mc, and'has so far been a failure, but I want to try and rescue her whether itcosts me my life or not Kreta has offered to accompany me with five of his men. Alone, I should certainly fail, but with his aid there is a chance of my succeeding." "By Jove, you are a brave fellow, Ser geant" the young officer said, "and I honor you lor the determination you have formed:," and waiving military etiquette, he shook Eonald warmly by the hand. "Assuredly I will, so far as in my power, give you leave to go, and will take good care that in case you fail your conduct in thus risking your life shall be appreciated. Bow do you mean to set about it?'' Eonald gave him a sketch of the plan that had been determined upon by himself and Kreta. ' "Well, I think you .have a chance at any rate, the officer said, when he concluded. "Of course the risk of detection in the midst of the Kaffirs wonld be tremendous, but still there seems a possibility of your escape. In any case no one can possibly disapprove of your endeavor to save this young lady from the awful fate that would certainly be hers unless you can rescue her. Poor girl! Even though I don't know her, it makes ray blood run cold to think of an English lady in the hands of those savages. However, if I were not in command of the convoy I wofld gladly go with you and take my chance." As soon as the encampment was reached, Kreta came up to Eonald. "Must change clothes," he said, "and go as Kaffir." Eonald nodded his head, as he had already decided that this step was ab solutely necessary. "Must paint black." the chief went on. "how do that?" "The only way I can see is to powder some burnt wood and mix it with a little oil." "Yes, that do," the chief said. "I will be with you in five minutes. I must band over the command to the Cor poral." "Corporal James," he said, When he went up to him. "I hand over the command of this detachment to you. You are, of course, to keep bv the wagons and protect them to King Williamstown." "But where are you going. Sergeant?" the Corrjoral asked in surprise. "I have arranged with Air. Nolan to go away on detached duty for two or three days. I am going to try to get the unfor tunate women who were carried off this morning out of the hands of the Kaffirs." The Corporal looked at him as if he had doubts as to his sanity. "I may not succeed," Eonald went on, "but I am going to try. At any rate, I hand over the command to you. I quite understand that Mr. Nolan cannot give me leave, and that I run the risk of punish ment for leaving the convoy, but I have made up my mind to risk that." "Well, of course you know best, Sergeant; but it seems to me that, punishment or no punishment, there is not much chance of your rejoining the corps; it is just throwing away your life going among them savages." "I don't think it is as bad as that," Eonald said, "although of course there is a risk of it At any rate. Corporal, vou can take the convoy safely into King Williams town. That's your part of the business." Eonald then returned to the encampment of the native levies. A number of sticks were charred and then scraped. There was no oil to be found, but as a substitute the charcoal was mixed with a little cart grease. Eonald then stripped, and was smeared all over with the ointment which was then rubbed into him. Some more powdered charcoal was then sprinkled over him, and this also rubbed until he was a shiny black, the operation affording great amusement to the Fingoes. Then a sort of petticoat con sisting of strips of hide reaching halfway down to the knee and sewn to a leathern belt was put round his waist, and his toilet was complete, except as to his hair. The chief looked puzzled, but after a few minutes' consideration called to one of the women and deliberately cut off her woolly mop close to the scalp, and put it on to Eonald's head. It fitted closely, for he, like all the men, wore his hair cut quite short to prevent its lorming a receptacle lor dnst The Fingoes applauded by clapping their hands and perlorming a wild dance around Eonad, while the women' who now crowded up shrieked with laughter. The chief walked gravely around him two or three times and then pronouneed that he wonld pass muster. A bandolier for cartridges, o! native make, was slung overTns shoulder, and with a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other, and two or three, necklaces of brass beads round his neck, Eonald would anywhere, unless closely inspected, have passed as a Kaffir warrior. In order to test his appearance he strolled across to where Mr. Nolan was in specting the serving out of rations. "What do you want?" the officer asked; "the allowance for all the men-has been served out already; if you haven't got yours you must speak to Kreta about it I can't go into the question with each of you." "Then you think I will do very well, Mr. Nolan?" The officer started. "Good heavens, Sergeant, is it you? I had not the slightest conception of it You are certainly admirably disguised, and you might walk through Cape Town without any one suspecting you, but what are you going to do abodt your feet? You will never be able to get throngh the woods bare footed?" "I have been thinking of that myself," Eonald said, "and the only thing I can see is to get them to make me a sort of sandal. Of course it wouldn't do in the day time, but at night it would not be observed, un less I were to go close to the fire or light of some sort" "Yes, that wonld be the best plan," the officer agreed. "I dare say the women can manufacture you something in that way. There is the hide of that bollock we killed yesterday, in the front wagon; it was a black one." Eonald cut off a portion of the hide and went across to the natives and explained to them what he wanted. Putting his foot on the hide, a piece was cut off large enough to form the sole of the foot and come up about an inch all round; holes were made in this and it was laced on to the foot with thin strips of hide. The hair was, of course, out side, and Eoland found it by no means un comfortable. "You ride horse," the chief said, '.'back to bush. I take one fellow with me to bring him back." fa Eonald was pleased with the suggestion, for he was by no means sure how he should feel after a walk or ten miles in his new foot gear. ( To be continued.') . Mothers will find for their own debility and weaknesses an excellent and gentle tonic in Dr. D. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge; while, for their children, whether in weak ness from the want of appetite, or worms, it is a remedy that will not disappoint It ought to be kept in every household, ready for use when needed, ana much suffering will be thereby saved. Sold by all drug gists. G. A. IZ. Excnrslon Bate to Milwaukee, 811 Via the F. & W. It'j. The Pittsburg and Western Railway will sell round trip tickets to Milwaukee August 21 to 27 for $11; to Chicago, on same dates, lor ?9. Tickets good going on Chicago Ex press leaving Allegheny at 1:40 p. m., city time, daily. Pullman sleeping cars and first-class day coaches run through to Chi cago without change. D Lut Chance to Dip In Old Ocean, By taking the excursion via the B. & O. E. E. next Thursday, August 29. Eate, $10 for the round trip, tickets good for ten days. Trains will leave depot at 8 A. m. and 920 P. M. Secnre your parlor and sleeping car accommodations at once. A Dniy Becomes a Demure When that duty is to patronize a home in dustry, and that industry is the manufacture of excellent beer. Frauenheim & Vilsack's "Pittsburg Beer" is home brewed and in comparably the finest beer in the market Telephone 1186. Removal. W. S. Bell & Co. have removed to their new rooms, No. 431 Wood st (former loca tion). A complete assortment of cameras, dry plates and all kinds of photographic material on hand. . Closing: Oat Sale Of summer dress goods, black and colored silks, surahs, cashmeres, serges, henriettas, French challls and satins at extraordinary low prices, to close this season's stock, at H. J. Lynch's, 438 and 440 Market street. Thssu lWiTnCRltf nnWITfi their ixutneu and JulJllUitil MtihliB.a, pouueat method and their progreMve policy, are entertainingly detcribed in to-moTTOVft IMSJPAXCH by JRrtmk a. Carpenter, THEBITTSBTJBGr THE LABRADOR GOAST A Voyage in a Schooner Along That Barren and Deserted Shore. APPETITES OP THE ESQUIMAUX. Two of Them Who Easily Got Away "With 56 Oranges, Skins and AIL SOCIAL LIFE IN THE WNTER KIGHT rCOBKESFOXDKXCX OF TRX DISPATCH. OnBoaed Schooneb Sophie; August 12. From Hopedale we proceeded north west skirting the shore, continually dodging islands, icebergs and homeward-bound fish ing craft There is no change in dreary scene. The shores present thesame lofty, massive, desolate outline. At our distance occasionally the moss upon them, under certain conditions of atmosphere and sun light, gave the appearance of heathery heights such as you will see when cruising along the noble northern shores of Ireland, from Iiough Foyle around Malin Head to Lough Swilly; but we knew there was no verdure there, and naught but stone. With that consciousness these shores are ever stern, repellant, awful; and no influence save that curious fascination to semi Arctic exploration one may have a hint of in going thus far toward eternal Ice and silence, can justly prompt any rational being in following .our course for aught save danger and fish. Both can begot nearer home. We agreed on sailing as far as human life permanently existed along, the coast, and again had opportunity" to carry passen gers free without a license. These were a sort of novitiate Moravian missionary who belonged to Hebron and had come to Hope dale with homeward-bound fishers, and two Esquimaux pilots who had brought vessels to the south. I was interested chiefly in the former's narative of life at this remotest American mission, and in the powers of the latter to assimilate our provisions. In all my wanderings I never saw two creatures in the semblance of humans with such swinish capacity and rapacity. We had a few boxes of oranges on board. They had never seen the fruit before. I was curious to know if they could once be sated with it We made the attempt but failed. These two animals actually ate 66 oranges, skins and all, ia one hour and 40 minutes. A MOBAYTAir MISSION. Passing Nain, an important Moravian Mission where the Home Society annually sends a large ship with supplies and for furs, and Okak Island and village, where there are straggling huts, a few traders and trappers, and where the Esquimaux come in the summer to fish, we finally reached He bron, and, without anchorage, left our strange passengers, who were taken ashore in a kayak a sort of hide-bottomed boat, almost precisely like the curragh of the Irish Aran Islands followed by a pro cession of kaya.es filled with grinning and chattering Esquimaux; when we proceeded on our now wholly dreary voyage to Cape Chndleigh. Here, as Captain Deschamps set the course of the Sophie toward the St Lawrence again, in 60 degrees north latitude, our eyes, if but for a brief half hour, rested upon the uncharted shores of Hudson's Strait and could at least see along the steely blue waters the way where so many intrepid searchers for Polar seas bad passed never to return. The result of the information secured during our few weeks' cruise leads me to be lieve that the portion of Labrador east of a line extending due north from the mouth of the St Lawrence river to Hudson's Bay, is the most worthless part of the whole world. Indeed it is scarcely worth visiting even as a curiosity in sterility and desolation. In the 1,000 miles of coast upon which there is any pretense oi population, the total number of resident human beings all told will not ex ceed 6,000 souls. This number includes all Indians of the Montagnais, Nasquapee aud Esquimaux tribes. Estimating the peninsu la as a quadrilateral with sides averaging 500 miles in length, a moderate computa tion, this would give an area .of 160,000,000 acres; and just one human being to about 27,000 acres. HOT TEBT FERTILE. That there are 100 acres of land capable of cultivation within this mighty expanse has been remorselessly disproved for over 350 years by the efforts of Jesuits and other missionaries, by those of Christianized Indians, and by all settlers who have been lured upon these shores to starve1 and perish. It is possible that during two, and possibly three months of the summer 40,000 fisher men may be round oil .Labrador; 15,000 within the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and 25,000 along the Atlantic Labrador shores. These are residents of the United States, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Prince Edward's Islands, and Newfoundland. They have no interest here whatever save to come and grab and go. There are not enough stand ing trees in all the Labrador district named, and that comprises all of Labrador proper, available for building timber, to pay for transporting to any place and light ing the first fire in a single sawmill. All the frantic efforts of the Dominion Govern ment to discover mineral deposits have been unavailing. What then does Labrador possess ? An unmeasured and measureless reach of stone and ice, covered here and there with moss: again occasionally patched with stunted spruce; oftener for hundreds of miles scarred and blackened by burned spruce stumps be tween which flinty rocks project like cruel spears; with countless impassable rivers E lowing in ungovernable torrents through ideons gorges; 4,000 whites utterly unable to leave their prisonment or better their con dition, living half of the year like beasts,and the other half little better; 2,000 Indians sub sisting on salt fish and raw, with occasion ally a bit of musty flour or meal: 300 to 400 Esquimaux dogs; any number of wolves, and countless seals and fish. Now that is all there is to Labrador besides a climate of Greenland; and even the seals and fish do not exclusively belong to it, for they are a common product of the ocean, and as com mon to all other northeast shores. Any land so God-forsaken that the government possess ing it cannot survey it, or procure any form of statistics concerning it, is a veritable cast away indeed. It is impossible to obtain sta tistics of even seals and fishes. Bnt from the known loss in naval and commercial expedi tions, and the wreckage of coasting and fish ers' vessels along the coasts, since Labrador was discovered, it would be a safe calcula tion that for every dollar in value of fish or fur secured upon the Labrador coast for the past 400 years, an equal or greater actual loss by somebody has been sustained. And when the additional frightful loss of life has been taken into account, the inexnressihl worthlessness of the entire peninsula maybe to some.extent conceived. ALERT KELIdlOtrS EFFOET. But there is a certain interest the world over in how even so hopeless a folk as the Labradorians may live, and in that out reaching of alert religious effort, whatever its faults of method, which aspires through great personal hardship and suffering to keep aflame the tiny lamps of Christian lighthouses along these wild and savage shores. The Jesuit missionaries have labored along the St Lawrence coast since 1611; and their efforts among the Indians of British America from the Atlantic to -the Pacifio fill a luminous page in North American history. On the Labrador coast from Seven Islands to Forteau Bay the people, compris ing Montagnais and Nasquapee Indians, French Acvlians and half-breeds, are all adherents of the Bom an Catholic faith. At but a few points are there resident priests. The fathers visit the different stations and settlements, by boat, twice, the remotest once, each year,, devoting themselves un tiringly to ministrations from one to two weeks at each pmee. From Forteau Bay past the Straits of Belie Isle and around the Atlantic coast to S Hamilton Inlet, the Church of England may be said to control T-i.j-i k milt ...i. r .. jiiiwivi vauvji, mui yog usuea u DISPATaTTODXTJanSTtB. most an English-speaking one, comprising perhaps 1,000 souls which Include several hundred Esquimaux' and Esquimaux half breeds. There are also in this territory three Wesleyan Methodist missionaries with roving charges, of whom our melan choly passenger from Mingan to Forteau Bay was one. The Church or England mis sions were established 40 years ago; and they now possess perhaps half a dozen mis sion houses'and tiny churches all told, which are annually visited with great anguish and trepidation by the Bishop of Quebec. Beyond this to the north there are no other than Moravian missions. These arc four in .number, all located on the Atlantic coast, at Hopedale. Nain, Okak and Hebron, the latter the northern-most mission of the continent The Brethren' whom I met in formed me that their first missionary and five sailors were murdered by the Esqui maux in 1762. But in 1770, under permis sion from the British Crown they gained a foothold and founded the mission at Nain! Okak was founded in 1776, Hopedale in 1782 and Hebron In 1830. The total num ber ofEsquimaux along the 500 miles of the Atlantic coast is now about 1,600. Of these nearly 1,200 have been "civilized" and be long to the four missions; and 31 mission aries are engaged in this work upon the en tire coast ABSOLUTE BULEBS. These Brethren are absolute rulers of the Esquimaux, and in all matters pertaining either to the Indians or to other trappers and residents on lands granted them by the English Government They control the en tire fur trade of the Esquimaux, paying such prices as they mav choose, and no ar ticle of food or use finds its way into the hands of these simple folks save through the Moravian trading honses at such prices of barter as the mUslonaries may demand. Vessels come to Nain with stores and pro visions from Europe, and to take away pro ceeds of the one-sided trading. The Brethren state that all profits are turned over to the general funds of the society. I do not wish to belittle their spiritual efforts or disparage their methods unjustly; but as near as I am able to judge, a form of slav ery exists here which is not creditable to ostensibly Christianizing effort It is cer tain that the dusky flock who are thus fleeced, notwithstanding their sickening servility to the Brethren, have a statement of the whole situation which they sullenly grunt among each other, and occasionally permit a sharp-eared stranger to overhear. This is: "Missionary heap good in church; heap bad in store!" The manner of subsistence of all the Indians and half-breed population of Lab rador is practically the same. The Mon tagnais and Nasquapees live in lodges the year round, whether in the interior or upon the coast The Esquimaux generally live in igloes, a sort of turf-covered wigwam, when in the interior, and when at the mis sions in rude huts modeled after the igioe; while the few remaining inland hunting Indians seldom appear upon the coast, unless driven in by famine, or when they come to the villages to barter, when they bring all their belongings down the rivers and inlets in open boats, camping at night under sealskin tents. The coast Labrador ians, and there are not 600 others, are occu pied in sealing in the early spring; they fish in the summer, hunt and trap in the winter; and these occupations are common to all, including half-breeds and whites. There is nothing else to be done, whatever the ability or inclination. In the extreme north the clothing is exclusively sealskin; and on the south shore the attire is a com bination of 'sealskin and fustian, the latter being especially prizkl for withstanding the cruel winds and stores of the region. TLENTT OFtSTOCKINGS. The number of stoc :ings worn by these folk is often astonisl ing. Four, five and sometimes a half di sen, are used inside their sealskin boots. There is nothing striking' about the d ess of the few white women who are here, ave that they remind one in the mountain air of cloth'ing they bundle upon themselv :s of the tremendons skirts of the women of Irish Connamara. But the Indian woaen of the South and the Esqnimaux womaa of the North are wonderfully apparelet. Anything they can get their hand upon possessing gorgeous color is used for decoration. They almost equal American womjn in this respect. Per haps thisguis more toticeable among the women of the StTLanrence coast than with the Northern Esquimaux. The dress of the latter usually consists of huge sealskin boots, petticoats, a sealskin garment covering the whole person from the neck to the knees trimmed with white fur, a cap enveloping the entire head, and a sort of baggy cape or hood hanging down the back, in which their fat littler babies are carried. The cradle is unknown among the Esqui maux; but the universal tendency of all mothers to bounce, sway and heave aboutthe helpless infant has illustration here in the "jigging" of the Esquimaux child in its aerial cradle. Walking or sitting the Esqui maux mother has an endless movement like that of an old tar under a heavy sea. It is a writhing, weaving, (waving motion which cannot be adequately described. But it suffices, and the fat aother gets a good deal of exercise out of i, whatever the effect upon the babe. Onlt among the half-breed women are there forms and faces that are at tractive as civilized folk judge these things. The compensation: is here, however; for nearly all the Esquimaux women will measure in girth what they will in height; and all forms of fat represent the Labrado rian idea of both utility and beanty. At child-bearing their own women officiate as midwives; and they get along very well in every respect without physicians. " There is not a resident doctor in all Labrador; nor for that matter, a lawyer; and our timber hunting friend regards this fact as a force ful argument against American high-pressure civilization and Boston ethical culture. SOCIETY IK WINTEB. If there be anything like a social or home life in Labrador it exists exclusively in the long, frozen night of the winter. Then the entire inhabitants retire from the howling coast to winter "quarters within the trifling shelter of spruce1 lorestsand protecting river crags, and from their burrows of sod, hut and ice, sally forth in their sledges or come tiques to "visit" each other in their storm swept settlements for distances of hundreds of miles. These trips are made over the glistening snow at the rate of 60 to 100 miles a day, by the aid of their gaunt and fero cious dogs, which are kept in submission by that crudest and deadliest of ail driver's scourges, the Esquimaux whip. Its handle is not a foot long, but the lash is often 40 feet in length, and the drivers arc so skilled in its use that a piece can be struck out of a "leader'' or "guide" dog's ear at a dis tance of from 30 to 40 feet These dogs, fully 150 of which I saw at Hopedale, are simply a species of partly domesticated wolves. They are fed on fish once each day. In the summer they are sources of endless ter ror abont the coast settlements; but life would be impossible here without their use in winter. These visiting tours are marked by the most prodigal hospitality, and a good deal of rude pleasure, indeed, all these far-away humans in any manner secure is enjoyed.. But Labradoriau life is an end less round of inane, sodden fruitlessness at best The summer is passed in a scourging effort for winter's provision. Winter brines its struggle to prevent death by cold and J hunger. u.nese numtn ammais seem simpiy born to exist, be robbed, and to die. One tarns from the slightest glimpte of land and people, heart-sick from irrevocability of the hopelessness of both. Labrador can never be else than what Jaques Gartier truly termed it in 1534, "the land given to Cain." Edoab L. Wakemax. Grand Army Excursions Over the Pennsyl vania Lines. Tickets for sale August 21 to 28 inclusive to Milwaukee and return, $11 from Pitts burg. Tickets for sale August 21 to 24 in clusive to Chicago and return, $9 from Pitts burg. Inquire at ticket offices of the Penn sylvania lines. You will find at John S. Boberts', 414 Wood street, the prettiest colors and newest designs in wall paper. xhs Af TVE ifrVflYAV " tomorrows. ULllB lYfifylUll patch describe DlS- daerlbet the t-""rvrT.! """ "- - ..,- ... Vinnr0 nt A,imiin .i4 hm. asif witfr ml jwrfevac, v - SQTES OF A f OTICE On the Wagner Festival at the Home of the Famous Musician. FINE PERFORMANCE OF PARSIFAL. An Amarican Describes the Masterpiece as it Appeared to Him. EXQUISITE EENDlTIOrf OP THE WORK icoanxspoxsxircx or tbx dispatch. Batbeuth, Bataeia, August 5. I made an imposing entrance into Bayrenth. I had been told a strike existed there among the cabmen, so no sooner had I touched the station platform than I made a contract with a small boy to carry my bag. Lodg ings had been assigned me by the General Committee of the festival, to whom, on ar riving, I paid my addresses, then started the procession for No. 77 Bichard Wagner Strosse. Outside the station I found about 1,000 cabs. A cab in Bayrenth is a bar ouche drawn by one or two horses, harnessed to a pole in either case, and the drivers of about 100 of these offered, even entreated me, to ride for "zwei mark." But I stuck to my boy, believing my room to be near at hand. But it wasn't. It was an extreme distance; my boy became double, then triplets before proceediuz half the journey, and hanging on to him, eager to buy, then supplant him, were a score of his relatives. My bag was heavy. At every block I would order a halt for rest and change of . position, when my couriers would mysteriously consult to gether as to their probable reward. As we advanced the populace appeared more nu merously at windows and doors heralding the strange sight I could not see the hu mor of the situation they appeared to, for hod I ridden from Nuremberg for this? But toward noon my domicile was reached, my train of menialsdismissed, evidently pleased with the high-grade pfennig piece I gave to eacli, and as later I peered from the window of riy comfortable room I found the street had! resumed its wonted quiet I THE TVAOXEB THEATEB andlita location have been often described. It as a lovely afternoon as I joined the throsg in carriages and afoot, moving along the avenue toward an eminence back of the town) whereon is the ideal structure ot its kind V the world. The site, commanding a lew of a charming valley, is most sque. At 4 o'clock I was to "Parsifal" for the first time, theater, which is without ent seatin? over 1.40G people in tiers rising one above the other, so that an unobstructed view ot the stage is to be had by all, filled gradually, until at 4 o'clock there were no vacant seats. The summons to enter for the beginning of a performance, or after the long entre acts are ended is given by a posse of trum peters fit 15 and again at five minutes be fore the hour, who sound from two sides of the first porch of the building, a theme from the ensuing act of the drama. Before a note is heard from the invisible orchestra the house is darkened, so that reading the score is impossible; the bustle of the audience, which the circumstances of its gathering make unusually interested in each other, has ceased and utter silence awaits, the enl trance of the first motif of the prelude to "Parsifal," a silence, it may be remarked, which remains unbroken during any portion of a performance in the theater. THE GBEAT WORK AS GIVEN-. "Parsifal," on "August 4, was given as usual, under the direction of Conductor Levi, of Mnnich, with an orchestra of 108 pieces the elite of German instrumental artists and with the following leading sineers: nTanDyck, Parsifal; Materna, Keendry; Biauwaert, Geernemanz; Beich- mann, Atnjortas; Silverman, Aitngsor; nob bing, Titmel. It is obviously impossible at this time to more than touch upon the philosop'hy that lies at the root of "Parsifal." Since "Bienzi" was put aside and the rays ot a new art dawned with "The Flying Dutch man," Wagner sought to teach through the medium of his operas and music-dramas some lesson of existence, to engraft upon the magic framework his inventive genius fash ioned some eternal truth. The "Dutchman," "jTannhaueser" and "Lohengrin" are so familiar that their ethical meaning ha3 not escaped the thoughtful; the profounder mo tive of "The Bing of the Nibalung" is only beginning to be studied with us. while Parsifal," the latest and ripest work of an epoch-making man, still sacred to those who can make A PILGRIMAGE TO BATBEUTH, illustrate the purification of the body and the regeneration ot the soul through strife. "Parsifal" is the ontcome of years of thought, for Wagner's early writings tell ns of his desire to compose a work on the sub ject of Jesus of Nazareth. Wagner calls ''Parsifal" a "Bnehnenweih Fest-Spiel" (Consecrated Festival' Play), and where is there taught more impressively the divinest truth? To hear "Parsifal" at Bayreuth is. in effect, like a discourse from some eloquent preacher or author; here Waener is the Em erson of the stage, and with his wonderful sway of the aesthetics and the mechanics of his art moves him who comes within his in fluence with a power and might unknown in romance or literature. A sketch of the drama of "Parsifal" may be briefly made. The holy Knights of the Grail from among whom came Lohengrin to succor Elsa guardians of the sacred spear and the cup, are suffering through the downfall of Amfortaa. He trusting more to physical than spiritual strength, vainly attempts battle with Kling sor, a .magician who defies all that is pure, and whose domains eucircle the castle of the knight3. Through the agencies of Keendry, who is bewitched by Klingsor to serve his evil ends, Amfortas is tempted and falls, Klingsor wrests from him the sacred spear, and wounds him incurably. At each cele bration by the Knights of the Holy Sacra ment, which it is the duty of Amfonas to administer, THE WOUND TS HI3 SIDE breaks out afresh. To his despairing cry for relief, Amfortas hears a celestial voice saying: "By pity lightened tbeguileiess fool, wait for him, my chosen one." The first act discloses Geernemanz, one of the knights, telling the story of the down fall otAmftSrtas to two of the more youthful brethren. He is interrupted by a tumult, when one of the sacred swans, fatally wounded by an arrow, flutters across the stage, followed by a group of amazed knights, leading the youth ful Parsifal, the slayer of the swan, who is unconscious of his offense. Ocernemanz.attracted by the boy, leads him to the castle, whither the .knights hate re paired, there to witness the celebration of the holy sacrament Parsifal stands mute during the ceremony, not perceiving his mission, and at last is thrust out by Geerne manz to roam through the world, gaining grace through experience for the high call ing he is to lulfiL. Klingsor lays a snare for Partfal, and sends alluring maidens, and when these fail him, Keendry, the en chantress, in the form of a beautiful woman, to tempt him. Keendry alluring Parsifal on by reciting the story of his birth and of his mother's repining at his wandering from home, stops not until she presses upon his lips the kiss of his mother's benediction. Stung with grief, Parsifal starts up and in intensest tones cries out: "Amfortas, the spear wound!" divining for the first time tbepure mission ot his life. Keendry, finding all her wiles powerless, finally calls upon Klingsor, who appears upon the wall of his castle, and, uttering a curse, hurls at Parsifal the spear wrested from Amfortas. It remains over the head of Parsifal, who grasps it, and with EcsiAcr op yazs waves it above his head, making the sign of the cross. Thereupon the castle falls as by an earthquake, the garden withers, and jieenary sinks, despairing, to earth. ha closing act transpires Lb. the dosukia wider picture hear I The adorns :Wl$&& of the knight. "Amfortas has become sore desperate, the knights are hopeless. As Geernemanz and Keendry the Jatter when removed from the influence of Klingsof sustains the position of serving woman to the knights, who are ignorant of Klingsor't power over her. Converse, a knight clad in black armor, having a spear, appears to them and reveals himself as Parsifal. To Geernemanz he relates the story of the spear and his purifying experience. The old knight, rejoicing, conducts him to the holy castle, where Amfortas, in great despair, calls on the knights to slay him and end bis pain. Parsifal, until then un seen, tarns toward him And touches the wound with his spear, thereby purging Am fortas from sin and healing him. The knights hail Parsifal as the heaven-appointed one. The musio is very beautiful, the third act being perhaps the most serene and im pressive page in Wagner's writings. The exquisite scene of the flower maidens and the Good Friday spell musio are perhaps the most familiar to amateurs of the United States of any of the concert excerpts from "Parsifal," though the finaleto the first act has had performances both in Boston and New York. The system of leading motives is nowhere more beautifully illustrated than in "Parsifal;" there are FEWEB PEINCIPAL THEMES than in either of the single dramas of the Nibelungen, but the secret of their use does not fail nor falter. The orchestra and 'the stage setting eqnal all expectations. The ensemble of voices and orchestra is remarkable. There is no preponderance of instrumental tone, there is no covering of voices, but everywhere a beautiful blending of both pervading, but not overwhelming the theater, the like or which is difficult to imagine in music. The degrees of tone which the conductor brought from his band were simply astonishing, vet there was never a fortissimo. The quality of the band is exquisite, but for the orches tra more should be said. The stage effects introduced in "Parsi fal" are unique as,thev are wonderful. As Gurnemanz first leads Parsifal to the hall of the Grail, the appearance of the country changes; the lovely meadow scene yields to cavernous rocks, mountains are traversed ere the eye rests on the domed hall of the Knights 'of the Grail. The effect is possible because of the immense revolving stage; a similar illusion is produced in act three, only then the stage revolves in the opposite direction revealing an entirely different per spective. Again, in the second act, where Klingsor't castle is suddenly transferred in to a garden of flowers, the stage sinks rap idly out of sight, bringing into view an ENTIBELY SEW SCENE fully set Formerly the flower maidens weie concealed behind their counterfeit pre sentments, but the better practice prevails now of having them enter from the sides. The overthrow of Klingsor' s castle is an ex pression of stage mechanics thoroughly real and startling. One can never overestimate the genius of Wagner, who planned every detail of these wonderful transmogrifications. The paint ing of every portion 'of the setting, all the devices used, are the work of skilled artists. Here is, indeed, achieved that unity for which Wagner lived and waited. The choral ensemble, particularly the ex tremely difficult Grail scene of act I, were superbly done; the elasticity of the voices, the sympathetio support given them by the orchestra, and the intense' effect of the latter being indelibly impressed on my mind. The flower girls music was simply exquisite; when it is re membered that the chorus at Bayreuth is composed of picked singers, artists, it may be possible for the reader to share some of my enthusiasm in describing their work. In the efforts of none of the solo singers did I detect anything but complete devotion to the work in hand. I do not find it easy to talk of them individually; what they did was all SO ADMIRABLE AND MTTINO. I was impressed with the dramatic ability of Van Dyck, though disappointed in his voice. Materna did not make Kun dry so ferocious in the earlier scenes as I had drawn the character mentally, but in the opening of act three, where, humblyshe bathes the feet of Parsifal, her acting was perfect Her voice has fallen off somewhat since she was, in America. The part of Gurnemanz is most sympathetic, and was beautifully sung. Beichmann is a fine actor. G. H. Wilson-. $UaQS Presents in the most elegant form THE LAXATIVE AND NUTRITIOUS JUICE or THS FIGS OF CALIFORNIA, Combined with the medicinal virtues of plants known to be most beneficial to the human system, forming an agreeable and effective laxative to perma nently cure Habitual Consti pation, and the many ills de pending on a weak or inactive condition, of the, KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS. It is the most excellent remedy known to CLEANSE THE SYSTEM EFFECTUALLY When one is Bilious or Constipated SO THAT PURE BLOOD, REFRESHING SLEEP, HEALTH and STRENGTH NATURALLY FOLLOW. 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But the result is so complete in my case, and after TC had given up all hope, it is such a surprise to find myself entirely well, with out a trace of my trouble left, that I can hardly do otherwise than give my testi mony." It was with a great deal of emphasis that Mrs. Pratt spoke these words to the writer, and her statement throughout was given with an earnestnessthat made it interesting. "Some years ago, during house cleaning time," she said, "I contracted a severe cold. I paid little attention to it, and it seemed to leave me. Whether it had never entirely left me and I caught fresh colds, I do not know, but after a time I noticed that my nostrils would become stopped up almosi continually, my eyes would get dim and watery and there would be a dull, aching . pain across the forehead over the eyes. It was a dull, heavy pain at first, bnt after a time it would often grow so severe that I would have to sit for hours holding my head in my hands. It seemed as if it would burst, . ' "My throat became raw and inflamed. I was continually hawking and raising and trying to clean it, but something would seem to stick there that I could not get up or down. "One of my ears became affected. At first there was a ringing, buzzing noise in it which interfered only slightly with my hearing. Gradually a little tumor formed inside of the ear, and for six weeks I never slept, day or nig'ht, so intense was the pain. There was a constant discharge from the ear of a light yellow matter. Mrs. John Pratt, S3 Sigh Street. "Gradually. but surely my trouble was growing worse, and extending all throngh my system. I could not sleep nights, and wonld getup feeling more tired in the morn ing than when I went to bed. When I would lie down, I could feel the mucus fall ing back into my throat If I fell asleep it would wake me up, feeling as though I was choking. I had no appetite. The very sight of food seemed to make me feel sick. When I did eat anything, I always had an inclination to vomit afterward. N ight sweats set in, and I began to grow weaker, and was daily losing flesh. My heart would palpitate, and then it would beat slowly and irregularly. This was followed by dizziness, and a taint feeling, especially when I would arise from a chair. Some , times I would stagger for several seconds as though intoxicated. My other ear be came affected a few years ago and I was soon stone deaf. ' "A severe cutting pain came in my shoulder blade. It was a sharp shooting pain, and would como so suddenly that it wonld almost take my breath. "I remained in this condition foroYct four years. I was tryinir physicians and taking medicine continually but all to no purpose. One day I was told of Drs. Cope land and Blair, and I went to see them. I felt confidence fn them, as tbey made so re at promises, and Iplacedmjself under their ca"re. 'Gradually I began to feel relief. The pain In my head and ears ceased. My head became clear and the dropping of mncus in my throat stopped and the soreness had left It, I sleep well and eat well, enjoying mjiood. I have nq more dizzy spells, and the pain in my shoulder blade has entirely disappeared. "But the greatest boon of all that the doctors have given me is my hearing. I can now hear ordinary conversation, without any trouble, when before I could barely hear a person shouting. I have not bad such good health for years, and I owe my recover? to the treatment of Drs. Copeland and Blair." Mrs. Pratt lives, as stated, at No. 33 High street, Allegheny, and her statement can be readily verified. i UPON THE HEARING. Showing the Connection and the Signs of Prqgress. A large proportion of the troubles of the ear may be traced to catarrhal affections. Many sufferers from catarrh will testify to I the peculiar effect that the disease seems to nave even in in eariy stages upon me nesr ing. The roaring and buzzing in the ears is one of the most familiar symptoms to ca tarrhal sufferers. Sometimes the sound which they hear in their ears is described by them as "steam going out of a pipe," "the sound of a great waterfall," "sounds of water overflowing," or "steam from a locomotive," as buzzing, singing, ringing and crackling; sometimes' like the sounds in a shell held at the ear or the bursting of bubbles. Sometimes the sounds are of a beating, pulsating, throbbing character, in cases keeping time with the regular beating of the heart. Sometimes there are several different sounds sneb as pulsating and buzzing together, in some cases the sounds are so intensa as to render life a burden, and there are Instances on record where the distracted sufferers have re sorted to suicide to rid themselves of them. Thero can be no more Important predlspos lrlg or exciting cause in producinc ear diseases than catarrh In the nose and throat. The symptoms of catarrh itself can hardly be mis taken. In many cases tba patients hare pains about the chest and sides, and sometimes in the back. They feel doll ana sleepy; the mouth has a bad taste, especially In the morn ing. A sort of sticky slime collects about the teeth. The appetite is poor. There is a feel ing lice a heavy load on the stomafiti, some times a faint, "all gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach which food does not satisfy. The eyes are sunken, the hands and feet become cold and clammy. After a while a cough sets In. at first dry. but after a few months it is attendedVwith a greenish-colored expectoration. The patient feels tired, all the while, and sleep does not seem to afford any rest. After a time be becomes nervous, irritable, and gloomy, and has evil forebodings. There is a giddiness, a sort of whirling sensation in the bead when rising up' suddenly. The bowels become costive, the skin is dry and hot at times; the blood becomes thick and stagnant; the whites of the eyes be come tinged with yellow; the kidney secretions become scanty and high colored, depositing a sediment after standing. There Is frequently a spitting up of food, sometimes with a sour taste and sometimes with a sweetish taste, this is frequently attended with palpitation of the heart and asthmatic symptoms. DOCTORS Are located permanently at 66 SIXTH AVE., Where they treatwith success all curable eases. Office hours 8 to 11 A. Jt; 2 to 5 p. x. 7 to9 p. x. (Sunday Included). Specialties CATARRH, and ALL DIS EASES ot the EYE, EAR, THROAT and LUNGS. Co&fOlUktion, SL Address all mall to vwrnui. COPELAND 4 BLAIR, xsumTe..rinrtwsiPK MM A" '. . .m-J5. .i i -t-i .vtuKttv-. - ?y
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